The irony is that today’s religions do need a reset.

The Trinity came from the Greek year gods, which was an analogy for the cycles of the seasons. The death of the old and birth of the new.

Though the Catholic Church viewed itself as the eternal institution and did its best to obscure this essential dynamic with various interpretations. Leaving it to Martin Luther to try to push the reset button on Christianity, as Jesus had tried to push it on Judaism.

Which had made his story a useful, modernizing parable for the Greeks, given some of their more primitive ceremonies.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The Ancients didn’t distinguish between religion and politics, culture and civics. Monotheism, in its more elemental forms, equated with despotism, as in one god, one ruler. While their form of multiculturalism was pantheism, as the tribal cultures coalesced into more city state nationalism. As such, many gods equated with many voices, power centers. Remember that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Monotheism gave us the default political form of monarchy. “The divine right of kings.” When the West went back to more pluralistic forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The fact is that while our technology was become fairly advanced in recent times, our culture remains fairly primitive.